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COWARDLY FOLLOWERS. 
[chap. VII. 
straight at them, giving a yell that turned them. Away 
they rushed up the hill, but at so great a pace, that 
upon the rutty and broken ground I could not overtake 
them, and they completely distanced me. Tetel, al¬ 
though a wonderfully steady hunter, was an uncommonly 
slow horse, but upon this day he appeared to be slower 
than usual, and I was not at the time aware that he 
was seriously ill. By following three elephants sepa¬ 
rated from the herd I came up to them by a short cut, 
and singling out a fellow with enormous tusks, I rode 
straight at him. Finding himself overhauled, he 
charged me with such quickness and followed me up 
so far, that it was with the greatest difficulty that I 
cleared him. When he turned, I at once returned to 
the attack; but he entered a thick thorny jungle through 
which no horse could follow, and I failed to obtain a 
shot. 
I was looking for a path through which I could 
penetrate the bush, when I suddenly heard natives 
shouting in the direction where I had left the wounded 
bull. Galloping towards the spot, I met a few scattered 
natives; among others, Adda. After shouting for some 
time, at length Yaseen appeared upon my horse Filfil; 
he had fled as usual when he saw the troop of elephants 
advancing, and no one knows how far he had ridden 
before he thought it safe to look behind him. With 
